It might be her troubled marriage making headlines, but Khloe Kardashian unearthed some other upsetting home truths in the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
The episode, which screened in the US on Sunday night, showed the Kardashian sister worrying about her lack of childhood memories after she “went through a windshield” in a car crash in 2001.
After a doctor told her she was suffering from a form of dementia, which they described as “depression masquerading as memory loss,” Khloe booked a hypnotherapy session to try to uncover the past.
“I remember having nightmares and I remember not being allowed to see our dad,” she dramatically told the hypnotist, referring to the famous OJ Simpson trial. The former American football star and actor was accused of murdering his wife, Nicole, and a friend in 1994.
Businessman and friend Robert Kardashian renewed his legal ticket, which had lapsed, and represented Simpson in the “most publicised criminal trial in American history” (Simpson was eventually acquitted in 1995).
“He was on OJ’s side and my mom was on Nicole’s side,” Khloe reveals. “OJ was like our uncle OJ. My mom felt my brother and I were too young to be around that.
“I was too young to understand why someone would be accused of doing that.”
Khloe’s hypnotist said she had buried these memories in her subconscious because they were too painful to deal with, and the session had helped her remember.
“OJ and Nicole were a part of my life so when she was killed so violently and disturbingly, I remember that always stuck with me,” she continued.
“I was really cold to him [her father] when I was a teenager. He died very suddenly. Then, after, I chose to not be with my family for a long time. They reminded me too much of my dad.”
The Kardashian patriarch died in 2003, aged 59, eight weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.
